Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Well
we are still having difficulties with getting new investigators- but I was
looking at all of our numbers this morning from these two transfers-and it made
me happy to see how we have progressed. We'll keep working for new
investigators. I feel like God is sending us people that are ready- I'm really
excited to see what will happen. We have two baptisms this Saturday-Miguel and
Adolfo. Elder Corral and I are getting along better than ever. We are excited
to be here-and we continue seeing miracles. We organized the hours of the day a
little bit better and hopefully that means that we won't waste as much time
with people that aren't going to be home.
WOO! So we are feeling pretty good. We have been working hard, and I was a bit
worried yesterday about some of the goals we had, but God did a lot in the last
minute. I've realized that the work we do is nothing in comparison to what God
does. He moves all the pieces-and if we are obedient- he puts us right where we
need to be every time. I am ready- I've learned so much this transfer, and I
still have much more to learn.
Elder Corral is doing great-we are learning together and we
are doing well with his training. I'm happy, Mom. I'm not as stressed as I used
to be- and I feel much more confident. I've realized that the only person who
wouldn't want me to feel confident is the devil, and that if I pause and listen
to the Holy Spirit I'll be just fine. There are times-even more than half way
through my mission that I wonder if I'm doing enough- but I know that the Spirit
is working through me- and I know that there is a whole lot more to do. But
that's okay- if there weren't tons to do, we wouldn't be here.

I hope
everything keeps going well in NC. I love you guys!

-Elder Dazey

PS> I'm hoping
that Day of the Dead will be a bit cooler here. I need to send you pictures of
the city I live in. It's literally the coolest little city.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

We got to baptize! YES!
It was an awesome baptism too. A lot of Montse's family was there and it was
awesome. There were like 50 people there! It was a great feeling to see her
make that choice. Elder Corral and I are happy. And now Miguel has agreed to
get baptized, we just have some teaching to do. Hopefully it all works out.
We had a great meeting with our Zone leaders! We talked about how God directed
everything and that his plan isn't always what we expect. The zone leaders are
funny :D

Elder Corral and I had a good week. I'm glad to be here in Atlixco. Who
would have thought that one could learn so much. I keep learning-and I am
starting to understand leadership and attributes of Christ that I had never
understood before. I feel that there are many times that I read the scriptures
or preach my gospel, and I don't understand exactly how I can apply those things
in certain situations. I am starting to learn them by experience. The Lord is
kind and longsuffering. I realize now how to better treat many situations. I'm
excited to learn more.
We contacted a lot of referrals this week, but we had no new investigators. We
are going to change some things up to make it better. Hopefully we can make new
investigators a habit again.
We have a few more people who want to be baptized- so we'll try to get them to
that point as soon as possible. I love to see how every person has been found
by a miracle. God works so much harder than we do.

I'm trying
to work on my prayers so that I can pray with more faith. Faith is the best.
Hopefully we can keep things up this week. We are going to try to set our view
higher. There’s a lady doing sign language video call in one of the computers
at the internet cafe- it's pretty cool.

Monday, October 12, 2015

This week has gone really well. We are so excited for Montse- the wife of a
member (Noel). She already passed her interview and we are now just preparing for
a beautiful baptism. We are really excited. We met her just a few weeks
ago-they had moved into the ward not to long ago. More about Miguel- we have
taught him quite a few times. He had had many spiritual experiences before- so
he felt right at home hearing about Joseph Smith. We have a new investigator
that is a bit strange and apparently (according to brothers in our ward) lies
about his whole life to try to seem like an acclaimed professor. We also didn't
feel too comfortable in his house after he shared an experience of some dream
he had- so we decided not to go back. He came to church. He sat down in gospel
principles and began to ask questions about the "secrets of the
church." We explained that there aren't any secrets- just sacred things
that we would like everyone to be worthy to know. He continued. So Miguel-our
other investigator- "empezo a planchar." (it's like setting someone
straight with the heat of an iron-ironing them out) Basically he told this guy
to stop asking questions and that the missionaries could tell him everything he
needed. He began to tell him everything he had learned from us. Although I
don't like it when people tell others off in public venues- I was happy that
Miguel was protecting his new found beliefs :D Strange right? (And we won't be
going back with Gabriel-we tried to be kind and pick up the pieces
afterwards-but I think he was offended-and we weren't exactly up and ready to
go back to visit him) In that same class an investigator that we had left
(Caren) came! She hadn't come in like a month! Out of the blue she was there
and asking how she could be baptized. God is the best.

Things
are going great. I had a good fast.

The district is doing
well. We're working towards goals and learning together. I think we're getting
some good things done, and we're excited to learn more in the zone training
meeting tomorrow.
We have some other baptism dates coming up-and hopefully we
can find a lot of new investigators this week-we'll be working on that. HERE
COME ANOTHER WEEK IN THE MISH (mission)! OH YEAH! TIME TO GET TO WORK!
Love,
Elder Dazey

Monday, October 5, 2015

The care package you sent was yummy-we ate it during General
Conference. Tell the Laurels thanks for the letters-but that luckily I have not
read them all yet. Give Sister Chapman a big hug from me because she sends me a
wonderful letter just about every month.

SO
WHICH SCRIPTURE ARE YOU PONDERIZING? Mine is Mosiah 4:30. I figured that I
should start pondering about the importance of ponderizing-or keeping virtuous
thoughts. Man is it exciting! YES.

CONFERENCE IS THE BEST. I think when I get back from the mission I'm going to
listen to straight up conference talks for the rest of my life. I'd be happy :D

How
wonderful it is to have living prophets, seers, and revelators to guide us
before the second coming of Our Lord. It's great! I loved the talks. I loved
the talks from President Uchtdorf (both of them), Elder Hales (Note to
self- read after the mission), Elder Holland (I love you Mom- thanks for
everything. I can't imagine the pain I've given you at some points in my life.
Thanks for always LOVING me. :D), Elder Bednar ( :' D I loved the
part with Elder Hales about only doing that which was most important), Sister
Neill F. Marriot (Yay for southern accents-it's been long enough), Elder Larry
B. Lawrence (5 stars. I loved it so much. I was just thinking about doing that
every day- and keeping the spirit always.), President Monson ( KEEP THE
COMMANDMENTS. Oh how we love you, President Monson) President Eyring ( I loved
the stories from his Dad) WHAT A GREAT CONFERENCE! I wish I could say
everything-but I'm glad I can say a little bit- I'm sure that we have all been
strengthened by conference. I pray that you are all going to continue feasting
on these words-and making the changes necessary in your lives. Will you do it?
I LOVE YOU LOTS!

Elder
Dazey

P.S.-
I need to hear what scripture everyone is ponderizing- and if you want to share
the gospel- post it to Facebook and ask others what they are reading-all of
you. Then send me the responses. How long will you PONDERIZE? a month? 2? a
year? 20?

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Well- I don't have much time- the internet was down for a bit
today. Man, that's great news about Chellie working at Jacob Lake. I'm excited
that she got the job and that everything is going well. We're going to have two
new Zone Leaders! Craziness.

Elder Bons (The trainee of
one of my good Elder friends, Elder Cook) sent me music for a number we'll
probably do in a month and a half. It looks fun. It's “I know that my Redeemer
Lives” (He plays piano super well)

The work is good. We have two baptismal dates for October- so
we're excited and working hard. I'll try to get some good pictures these weeks
coming up. It's raining again, and this week it started getting cold.